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Re: SANS Top 20: Mac OS X?

From: "Bruce Ediger" <eballen1 () qwest net>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:16:58 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Michael Holstein wrote:

The fact that Mac users are an elitist group that believes themselvesinvulnerable to viruses/etc doesn't help either.


What, is an OSX virus or worm going around?  Has anybody got details?

Or is this just the old NeXTStep problem where a Mach task (as opposed
to "Unix process implemented as a Mach task") created by any user ID
ran as root?

I never did the fiddling to get filesystem access from a Mach task,
but I heard that it was easily possible.
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SANS Top 20: Mac OS X? Anonymous Squirrel (Nov 23)
- Re: SANS Top 20: Mac OS X? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 23)
  - Re: SANS Top 20: Mac OS X? Michael Holstein (Nov 23)
    - Re: SANS Top 20: Mac OS X? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 23)
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    - Re: SANS Top 20: Mac OS X? Bruce Ediger (Nov 23)